apt-get purge

[Lorenzo Luengo]

Allen Meyers escribió:
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Charlie Kravetz 
> <cjk at teamcharliesangels.com <mailto:cjk at teamcharliesangels.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 11:00:26 -0500
>     "Alex Katebi" <alex.katebi at gmail.com
>     <mailto:alex.katebi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > What is the difference between apt-get purge, clean, and remove?
>     > Why when I try to remove a single package, apt removes a boat
>     load of
>     > other packages but not the one I asked for.
>     > What am I doing wrong. I had done "apt-get install libreadline5-dev"
>     > then I did "apt-get purge libreadline5-dev". It removed many other
>     > packages for 30 minutes but not the libreadline5. Any ideas?
>     >
>     > Thanks in advance,
>     >  -Alex Katebi
>
>     If you install "apt-dpkg-ref" package, it is a reference sheet that
>     tells you all the options and explains what they do. I have used
>     it for
>     about three years now. If you print it, it is about 4 pages
>
>     Good luck,
>
>     --
>     Charlie Kravetz
>     Linux Registered User Number 425914          [http://counter.li.org/]
>     Never let anyone steal your DREAM.          
>     [http://keepingdreams.com]
>
>     Hey I welcomed that info myself, but tell me what I did wrong. I
>     tried it as is and with sudo and got same reply
>
> allen at allen-desktop:~$ apt-dpkg-ref
> bash: apt-dpkg-ref: command not found
> allen at allen-desktop:~$ sudo apt-dpkg-ref
> [sudo] password for allen:
> sudo: apt-dpkg-ref: command not found
> allen at allen-desktop:~$
I thought what charlie meant is
sudo apt-get install apt-dpkg-ref
evince /usr/share/doc/apt-dpkg-ref/apt-dpkg-ref.pdf.gz

There is the help that Charlie means... btw... i didn't know about it... 
thanks Charlie!, it's really handy!

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